Brooklyn Byers

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“Nineteen-Something” by Brooklyn Byers

Submitted to Contest #172

They started the program when I was fourteen years old. It was an effort by the ECCS[1] –founded by PEUGO[2] only a year earlier – in response to the rising tensions between governing factions, particularly those of the U.S. and the Middle East. The program emphasized the collectivization of future generations and had three central dictums: honesty is peace, the larger the hive, the broader the mind, and sedition is sacrilegious. It took okay, but I think we were too old for it to have the effect they wanted. Most people my age still lie, my...

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